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Æ38 - Gordian III ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΑΙΛ ΑΤΤΑΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΥΟΥ ΙΠ ΑϹΙ ΑΡΧ Α ΤΟ Β ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Saitta (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VII.1#228 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Cybele seated facing left upon a throne, wearing a turreted crown (polos) and long draped garments, holding a patera in her extended right hand and resting her left arm upon a tympanum (drum). At her feet to the left crouches a lion, her sacred attribute. The lengthy magistrate's titulature legend in Greek fills the field and surrounds the central type within a beaded border. |
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Saitta was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Gordian III was administered through the conventus of Sardis — the Roman judicial district that handled both legal and monetary affairs for the region. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, Aurelius Aelius Attalianus, held the post of hipparchos and archon, a combination of civic offices that reflects the layered municipal bureaucracy typical of mid-third century Asia Minor. The notation "TO B" indicates this was his second term in the archonship.